Refrigeration



1 s. T. BEARE 1,723,460

REFRIGERAT ION Filed Oct. 12. 192? Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

UNITED STATES SAMUEL TAYLOR BEARE, OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

REFRIGERATION.

Application filed October 12, 1927. Serial No. 225,662.

portions of said compartments so as to pre-.

vent the entrance of warm air into the food compartments, except in that portion only which may be opened for the reception or removal of food.

A further object is to utilize closures for portions of a food compartment, as means for interrupting the circulation of cold air through said compartment and segregate one portion of said compartment whlch may be opened, from other portions thereof.

tor in which a freezing and cooling unit is removably located in a chamber thereof and adapted to serve the double purpose of cooling the air which circulates through the refrigerator and to freeze material contained within said freezing and cooling unit.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists/in certain features as here inafter set forth and pointed outTin the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,-'-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a refrig erator showing an embodiment of my invention,-the doors of the refrigerator being shown open.

Figure 2 is a view partly in front eleva- 5 tion and partly in section with the hinged doors removed, and

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section through that portion of the refrigerator in which one of the food chambers is located.

The casing or body portion of the refrigerator is indicated at 1 and is divided by a vertical partition 2 to provide a vertical food compartment 3 at one side and a food compartment 4 and a cooling compartment 5 at the other side of said artition. The compartments 4 and 5 are ivided by a horizontal partition 6 having an opening 7 surrounded by a flange 8 projecting upwardly into the cooling compartment 5. An open ing 9 in the vertical partition 2 afl'ords communication between the upper portion of the food. compartment 3 and the upper portion of the cooling chamber 5 and an openin 10 in the lower portionof said artition a ords communication between t e food low the cooling chamber may be closed by a chambers 3 and 4. The partition 6 affords a floor for the cooling chamber 5 and upon this floor brackets 11 are located and provided with flanges which afford trackways 12 to receive and support a cooling and freezmg unit 13 located within the chamber 5, the upper portions of said brackets forming guides for said freezing and cooling unit. The cooling and freezin unit consists of a a tank to contain broken ice and salt and is adapted to receive drawers 14 in which material to be frozen will be laced. .In the drawing'I have shown a she f 15 supported by posts 16 and disposed above the surface of the floor 6 and a block of ice 17 laced upon said shelf. It ma be here state however that the placingo a block of ice in the A further object is to provide a refrigeracompartment 5 is not essential to the operation of the refrigerator, as the unit 13 containing broken ice and salt will serve to cool the air' circulating through the refrigerator. It will beunderstood that the air "will pass friim the cooling chamber 5 through the opening 7 and downwardly throu h the food compartment 4:, then through t e opening 10 in the lower portion of the partition 2 and into the lower part of the vertical food chamber 3 and from the upper part of the latter, through the opening 9 in partition 2 and into the upper portion of the cooling chamber 5 as illustrated by the arrows in figure 2.

The cooling chamber may be closed by a hinged door 18 and the food. chamber 4 beso hinged door 19 preferably having a lass panel 20. The door 18 ma also be provlded with a glass panel 21, if esired. The food compartment 4 contains a reticulated or wire tra or shelf 22 mounted on supports 23.

he vertical food compartment'3 is closed by an outer hinged glass paneled door 24:

and a series of superimposed and spaced reticulated trays or shelves 25 are located within said chamber 3. The supports for these W0 trays or shelves consist of channeled members 26. These channeled members or certain of them provide supports and guideways for supplemental doors or closures 27 for the vertical food compartment 3. 'Each W5 of these closures 27 may be provided with a glass panel 28. When access to any part of the food chamber 3 is desired, one of the sup lemental closures 27 may be raised to a horizontal position and slid back through its U0 5 thereof which may be open. By interruptin the circulation through the vertical food compartment 3 as above described, warm air entering that portion of said compartment which may be open will be prevented from reachin the cooling chamber 5 to an appreciab e extent.

Having fully described my invention what I claijni'fas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: A refrigerator comprising an outercasing,

a vertical partition extending the full height of the casing and havin openings near its upper and lower ends, a orizontal partition the casing, 'said horizontal partltion having an opening therethrough, an ice support over the opening in the horizontal partition, tracks on said partition between the opening therein and the vertical partition, and a coolin and freezing unit slidably mounted on sa1d tracks and extending to the upper opening in the vertical partition whereb air passing into the ice chamber will be de ected downwardly and caused to flow under the unit to the opening in the horizontal partition.

specification.

' SAMUEL TAYLOR BEARE.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this 

